RYAN & MWD SATAN T383 ARE REUNITED!

With heartfelt gratitude and respect, we would like to thank the adoptive family of Satan T383 for their compassion in reuniting Satan with his first handler Ryan Henderson. The Army’s OPMG erred in so many ways with the TEDD adoptions, and we are not giving up the cause for other handlers.

Ryan and Satan are now in Texas after a whirlwind roadtrip to pick Satan up in North Carolina. Thank you to attorneys Marilyn Forbes and Ashley Chase for their legal expertise, kindness, dedication, and determination in making this reunion happen.

Ryan has certainly been our most outspoken TEDD handler in trying to get his dog back. We hope other handlers will be encouraged and other adoptive families inspired in making these reunions happen. These handlers and MWDs deserve it.

Our team has adopted Ryan as our friend, and we are honored to have had a part in helping him.

 

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Congratulations to Mark Stephens and TEDD MWD Maci1 R682, and a very special thanks to Chief John Green, Sergeant Drew Bishop, and the Franklinton Police Department in North Carolina for reuniting these battle buddies! The police department acquired Maci1 and another TEDD Toki back in February 2014 at the end of the TEDD program.

We pointed Mark in the right direction back in February 2016. Chief Green and his department have been incredibly kind to these handlers – we can’t thank them enough.

Our best wishes to Mark and Maci in her retirement!

Due to the disposal numbers provided in the AF Report being grossly inaccurate, we have compared the numbers provided in the AF Report with our records collected since October 2015.

We just wanted to give our supporters a heads up on what has been happening behind the scenes.

In mid-March, we submitted our rebuttal to the Air Force Report on the TEDD Program Adoptions. Our contact at the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) has distributed it to the necessary parties, and from what we hear – more Congressional representatives are asking to read it. This 38-page document gave detailed rebuttals to the many claims by the Army’s Office of the Provost Marshal General and provided many links to our documentation on the adoptions. At this time, we have not heard back on our rebuttal, but hope it will have an impact.

Additionally, we are still awaiting the DoD Inspector General’s assessment of the TEDD adoptions that we expected in March. My contact at the HASC believes it will be released in the very near future.

One of the TEDD handlers, Ryan Henderson, filed a lawsuit in late April against the family who adopted his MWD Satan T383. We fully support Ryan’s efforts to reunite with Satan. While we are empathetic to the adoptive family, the truth is that they were well aware in late November 2014 that handlers were searching for Satan. We are hopeful that he and the family can come to a resolution on this matter.

The simple fact is that the dogs are not getting younger. As each day passes, it’s easy to get discouraged. We will not give up until every avenue is explored to get justice for these handlers. It’s in the hands of the DoD Inspector General, Congress, and even the courts at this point. We continue to reach out to the media, and they are also seeking interviews and stories from handlers.

We continue to hope that families and agencies who have these dogs will reach out to us or the handlers to give them the reunions they so deserve. While over 3 years has passed, these dogs will remember their handlers. And the handlers need closure to know what happened to their battle buddies.

Justice for TEDD Handlers is still made up of volunteers who are dedicated to doing what we can to find dogs for handlers (including those from the USMC IDD program) and hopefully at least get photos and updates – and yes, reunions.

Thank you for your continued support.

Army Specialist Jake Carlberg and his dog Abby spent over a year sniffing out bombs in Afghanistan.

Source: Army Gave Retired Military Dogs to Company That Tried to Sell Them

We would like to express our gratitude to Anne Yeager with K9 Hero Haven for taking in former TEDD MWD Dino1 R598. He is one of the TEDDs acquired by Franklin County in February 2014 and sold by the county commissioners to a deputy in August 2015. https://justice4tedds.com/the-franklin-county-6/.

We are extremely thankful to this deputy for contacting us about Dino months ago and offering him to his former TEDD handler Brad. Unfortunately, Brad is unable to take Dino since he is still active duty, has a young child and lives in a small apartment. Dino has had aggressive behavior issues, which have ultimately created a need for the deputy to rehome him. His work as a police K9 handler requires that his current police K9 resides in the home as well.

On Veterans Day, even our four-legged heroes deserve recognition. We honor them with love and remembrance. Thank you to ALL veterans for your service, sacrifice and bravery.

We have received the Air Force’s report on the TEDD program from a House Armed Services Committee staffer. The report was required per the FY17 NDAA House Report 114-537, page 130.

We dispute many claims made in the report and have proof of the inaccuracies. Just a cursory glance shows us that the 40 TEDD MWDs “adopted by current/former handler” claimed is wrong. Two of the 40 actually went to non-handlers, as evidenced by the Freedom of Information Act responses we received. 

TEDD HANDLERS who deployed/certified beginning in late 2012:

Please take a look at this document linked below. It’s a response to a request by Senator Thom Tillis for an investigation into the TEDD program.

Were you briefed by an OPMG representative on the adoption process during TEDD predeployment/certification training events beginning in late 2012? This could have been at VLK, K2 or in Yuma.

The Army is claiming an OPMG representative informed all of these soldiers that if they were interested in adopting a TEDD, they should provide their contact information to the OPMG representative on-site at the training event. Furthermore, the OPMG representative informed the soldiers that they could express interest later through their chain of command, or by emailing the representative directly.

This doesn’t appear to be what we’ve discovered actually happened.

Please email us at justice4tedds@gmail.com if this pertains to you so we can get a consensus on if this claim is accurate. Thank you!

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